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Exhortation To Practice Faith

19 Living by God’s Word.[a] Remember this, my beloved brethren: everyone should be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to anger.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:19 It costs nothing to place oneself among the distracted listeners and let oneself go to the demon of words for the sake of words. Hearing the Gospel for the sake of putting it into practice obliges one to notice the sufferings of others, to be concerned with truth, to cling to the Christian originality in the face of current mentalities and morals.